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[RL] Confirmation just came down that we're going to discounts starting Thursday.
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May start at 30%. Might go straight to 50%.
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Which means I need to pop in tomorrow to grab a few things and throw them in the office so that I can actually get them.
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Not sure how I'm feeling about this at the moment. Coworker says it hit her really hard today, which is understandable.
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We hear basically nothing for two and a half months, then it's suddenly, "Oh, you're going to closing footing in two days."
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Also. Apparently, boss has put the cat among the pigeons with the higher ups. Who are now panicking because they were counting on him to support us through close and they still need leadership at the other store.
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And it's like, "If you leave a guy on hold for two and a half months with no fucking word about what's going on, then you should expect he's going to move on."
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Because he didn't know if he was even going to have a job once we closed.
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Funny how they always seem surprised.
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Yep. Like, the three of us can probably manage the shop until February. I'm going to be shattered to fuck, sure, but we can manage.
Lady Prime
Ugh, corporate
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Pretty much, yeah.
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Ah, corporate.
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So, the POS came in today. A shit ton of it.
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And one thing that needed to be done is to check a SKU list today and tomorrow to make sure things are scanning properly. And if they aren't, somebody needs to be called, all that.
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Which was great, apparently, except the Line List wasn't showing up properly on our system.
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Like, coworker would save it and try to bring it up, but it would just come up as gobbledegook.
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So, she calls the Cluster Manager, asking what she needs to do.
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Cluster manager hadn't even heard that this was going live tomorrow.
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Nobody had told her.
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Aaaaaaaaand there's the third thing.
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Store leader's pulled shoulder is bad enough that he's having trouble even catching a breath, so he's off for...probably the rest of his time at the company.
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Cluster manager spent a lot of time calling around to see if she could get somebody to cover Friday and Saturday. But the main person who could have done it is taking his dad to the hospital on Saturday, so couldn't be here for Friday. One of the people at the other store is on holiday and another is burying his dad.
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Which leaves them with only two people to limp through the rest of the week.
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So I'm currently about 90% certain that my schedule is going to go to shit for the next two and a half months.
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Like, it was already bad.
Gayocalypse
fuck. and friday is black friday
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It is, but it's not as big of a thing in the UK.
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Where Black Friday deals have been running all month.
Gayocalypse
oh that's good
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I mean, it's probably going to be manic, but for different reasons.
Gayocalypse
yeah, but it's not going to be the crowd press manic craze that literally kills people
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But, honestly. This is why this whole...I can't remember the term for it. Slim staffing or whatever it's called when they cut the hours to the bare bones of what's needed to run the shop.
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This is why it's shit.
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Because the MINUTE something goes wrong, the entire shop is thrown into turmoil.
Gayocalypse
Shortstaffing or flexstaffing
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Yes, that.
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Flexible my ass.
Gayocalypse
I think Flexstaffing is the term I've seen most used in professional communications because shortstaffing has 'negative' connotations (duh)
Gayocalypse
purposely shortstaffing is viewed as 'bad practice' so they call it something else
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That's because it's TERRIBLE practice.
Gayocalypse
it really is. but it costs more money to actually staff a place properly
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Hell, we're not just shortstaffed these days, we're spending a lot of time single manning.
Gayocalypse
there should never be a single manning. that's just asking for someone to abuse it
Gayocalypse
managers mostly,
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We're a small store, so there's apparently not a lot of worry about shit getting stolen.
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Especially now, I'd wager.